Managing Defense after History’s End: A Conversation with Robert F. Hale, Assistant Secretary of the Air Force during the Clinton administration

About the Interview Robert F. Hale was Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Financial Management and Comptroller) for the majority of the Clinton administration. In this conversation he offers perspectives on a variety of important topics for 1990s defense management, from the specifics of financial management reform in an era of declining budgets to broader questions of justifying the military after the Cold War. Political considerations ranging from the structural (Senate confirmations) to...